Subterfuge! Civilization League - Inaugural Season

Turn Timer and Missing Turn

I'm sending this as an email as well because I want to make sure everyone sees it (specifically The Missing Turn). There has been some concern as to the turn timer changing seemingly at random and the possibility that we missed turn 37 this week. I believe I have the answer to what happened in both cases now.

Firstly, the turn timer... I'm not 100% on this but I believe that it is a situation where we each take our turns simultaneously as far as turn number is concerned, however, we also each have a running 24 hour timer after the last time we completed our turn. It starts after an individual player completes their turn, not when the "All Players" turn number cycles. The timer on the screen, however, only shows the longest current timer. Why they did this? I have no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clue. It seems to be consistent with what we've seen so far though. So it may continue to jump around randomly but it really isn't hurting much of anything other than pace of play a bit and we can manage that.

So, after we started noticing the weird timer issues, I restarted the server thinking it might help fix them. As it turns out, when you reload the game from an autosave, the system has to force a "Resync" and resave. This Resync save auto-ends everyone's turn. So! When I restarted the server turn 37 was ended prematurely. The result was that everyone's progress on buildings, science, culture, etc were all cycled and no one lost any real production. However, it also meant no one was able to move any of their strategic units during that turn.

So basically, that happened again this morning. I completed my turn 43 this morning and since I was the last person to take it, I took the opportunity to restart the server again. The server moved to turn 44 at the end of my turn like it should have. The server autosaved like normal and I restarted the server. When I loaded the save for turn 44, it loaded as normal but when I logged in, it immediately ended turn 44 and moved to turn 45 (essentially skipping 44). I checked the autosaves and there was a new one called resync for turn 45. I tried reloading the save for turn 44 but no luck, it did the same thing.

So the good news is, I believe I've figured out what happened and I can hopefully prevent it from happening again. The bad news is that we need to take turn 43 over again so you'll need to repeat what you did yesterday, unfortunately. I was planning on polling everyone on if they just wanted to let it skip the turn but I've had someone report that the skipped turn would have resulted in them losing a Great Person which is a big enough of a problem that I think we need to just reload from yesterday. My apologies for that but I don't want anyone unfairly punished by something that was the server's fault. Hopefully we can avoid this in the future now that I think I know what happened. Let me know if anyone has any concerns about this.

Ian